2017 FSU Archaeological Field School - Submerged Prehistory and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Aucilla and Wacissa Rivers

2017 FSU Archaeological Field School - Submerged Prehistory and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Aucilla and Wacissa Rivers

2017 FSU Archaeological Field School

Submerged Prehistory and Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Aucilla and Wacissa Rivers

The 2017 field school was held in the Aucilla-Wacissa drainage, a Florida Outstanding Waterway, ca. 45 minutes south-east of Tallahassee, Florida. This area contains dozens of Paleoindian sites (>11,500 years old) that were inundated by rising water levels at the end of the last Ice Age. The karst geology of the drainage preserved these sites within now-underwater sediment layers, giving us a unique picture of Southeastern Paleoindians.